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Do equipment stands have an impact on electronics?

Mechanical grounding or isolation from vibration has been a hot topic as of late.  Many know from experience that footers, stands and other vibration technologies impact things that vibrate a lot like speakers, subs or even listening rooms (my recent experience with an "Energy room").  The question is does it have merit when it comes to electronics and if so why?  Are there plausible explanations for their effect on electronics or suggested measurement paradigms to document such an effect?
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It's not hard to detect vibrations. Just set a container of water on the subject and watch for ripples. It's natures natural vu meter for vibrations.    Of course be careful not to spill.  
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mapman
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11-06-2016 7:43pm
It’s not hard to detect vibrations. Just set a container of water on the subject and watch for ripples. It’s natures natural vu meter for vibrations. Of course be careful not to spill.

Gosh, there an echo in here? I said the same thing on this thread a couple weeks ago. I also mentioned it in the notorious similar thread that went belly up a few weeks ago, when I said, "You can see the *seismic* vibrations in the surface of the water in a glass on top of a preamp, etc..." Of course, and more to the point, the glass of water can be used to "measure" how effective the isolation device under test is by, you know, seeing the difference in the amount of ripples in the surface of the water with and without isolation. This test will also demonstrate that seismic vibrations are obviously more powerful than the so-called induced vibrations that the component might produce. Hel-loo!

And earlier on this thread I wrote,

"Funny story. A friend of mine said watch this. He was sitting in a chair on the other side of the room from his stand with a CD player on the top. Next to the CD player was a glass of water. Next, he began tapping his knee with his finger very softly. Immediately ripples appeared on the surface of the water in the glass, synchronized with the tapping."


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dlcockrum
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11-06-2016 6:33pm
Hi Geoff,

Proud to have moved up to "Slick".

I’m all out of lysergic acid diethylamide. lol

I said I’ll tell you my name, you got to let me in
You can be the sinner and I’ll be the sin
I’ll take what I want and its easy to see I got everything
Everything
I’ll show you what I got
When you tell me what you need
So put ya money where ya mouth is
I’ll show you what I got
When you tell me what you need
So put your money where your mouth is
Come on, yeah
Show me
I’ll show you what I got
When you tell me what you need
So put your money where your mouth is
Watch out, watch out
I said yeah

I found this to be inspirational in this case.

Best to you Geoff,
Dave

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